Locations of marine animals revealed by carbon isotopes
Knowing the distribution of marine animals is central to understanding climatic and other environmental influences on population ecology. This information has proven difficult to gain through capture-based methods biased by capture location. Here we show that marine location can be inferred from ani...
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ftarchimer:oai:archimer.ifremer.fr:84944 2023-05-15T15:32:07+02:00 Locations of marine animals revealed by carbon isotopes Mackenzie, Kirsteen Palmer, Martin R. Moore, Andy Ibbotson, Anton T. Beaumont, William R. C. Poulter, David J. S. Trueman, Clive N. 2011-06 application/pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00737/84944/89928.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00737/84944/89930.docx https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00021 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00737/84944/ eng eng Nature Publishing Group https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00737/84944/89928.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00737/84944/89930.docx doi:10.1038/srep00021 https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00737/84944/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess restricted use Scientific Reports (2045-2322) (Nature Publishing Group), 2011-06 , Vol. 1 , N. 21 , P. 6p. text Publication info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2011 ftarchimer https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00021 2021-12-07T23:50:12Z Knowing the distribution of marine animals is central to understanding climatic and other environmental influences on population ecology. This information has proven difficult to gain through capture-based methods biased by capture location. Here we show that marine location can be inferred from animal tissues. As the carbon isotope composition of animal tissues varies with sea surface temperature, marine location can be identified by matching time series of carbon isotopes measured in tissues to sea surface temperature records. Applying this technique to populations of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) produces isotopically-derived maps of oceanic feeding grounds, consistent with the current understanding of salmon migrations, that additionally reveal geographic segregation in feeding grounds between individual philopatric populations and age-classes. Carbon isotope ratios can be used to identify the location of open ocean feeding grounds for any pelagic animals for which tissue archives and matching records of sea surface temperature are available. Article in Journal/Newspaper Atlantic salmon Salmo salar Archimer (Archive Institutionnelle de l'Ifremer - Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer) Scientific Reports 1 1 |
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Knowing the distribution of marine animals is central to understanding climatic and other environmental influences on population ecology. This information has proven difficult to gain through capture-based methods biased by capture location. Here we show that marine location can be inferred from animal tissues. As the carbon isotope composition of animal tissues varies with sea surface temperature, marine location can be identified by matching time series of carbon isotopes measured in tissues to sea surface temperature records. Applying this technique to populations of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) produces isotopically-derived maps of oceanic feeding grounds, consistent with the current understanding of salmon migrations, that additionally reveal geographic segregation in feeding grounds between individual philopatric populations and age-classes. Carbon isotope ratios can be used to identify the location of open ocean feeding grounds for any pelagic animals for which tissue archives and matching records of sea surface temperature are available. |
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Mackenzie, Kirsteen Palmer, Martin R. Moore, Andy Ibbotson, Anton T. Beaumont, William R. C. Poulter, David J. S. Trueman, Clive N. Locations of marine animals revealed by carbon isotopes |
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